When the Pullman Strike Reached Washington
Tacoma bricklayers are jailed for contempt and Spokane men face federal charges as the railroad boycott’s aftershocks hit the Northwest.
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Tacoma, July 19.—August Goldberg, William Cassidy and John Short were arrested today for contempt of court in disobeying Judge Hanford's orders. They were bricklayers and took a handcar on which they rode from the Stampede tunnel to Kent.
Part of the stolen dynamite, taken a week ago, was recovered today near the magazine. Strikers or sympathizers were supposed to have taken it.
The Northern Pacific has shipped 100 cars of freight from Tacoma eastward since Monday, and will ship 200 more Friday. Orders are on file for 1,100 empties on this division, but they cannot be supplied until the delayed cars arrive from the East and are unloaded.
L. D. Scofield, of Spokane, was arraigned by Judge Gilbert in the United States court today on the charge of derailing a locomotive, and Robert Leinig and Silas Lewitt, of the same city, were arraigned and charged jointly with assisting in derailing a freight car. All pleaded not guilty and stated that they had no money with which to employ counsel. Scofield said he had a family and was a poor man. They will be given a hearing tomorrow morning, when the court will assign counsel. They were remanded to jail.
“All pleaded not guilty and stated that they had no money with which to employ counsel.”
The Pullman boycott is usually remembered as a national railroad strike, but its shockwaves reached Washington: Tacoma workers were jailed for contempt and Spokane men faced federal charges over alleged train sabotage. Then, as now, labor disputes quickly became tests of court authority and public order.
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